Alex-Cheryl

Friday, February 13, 2009

Los Angeles: More Disneyland

More Disneyland - California Adventure

We spent a little more time at Disneyland Park that morning, going for some rides which had a long queue the day before. The sun was scorchingly hot that day!

We took the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage

Immaculate detail even underwater!

Beautiful handwork that cannot be justified through photos

Disney castle

After the many days we spent in the other cities, we barely had enough energy to fully enjoy Disneyland. We tried our best to drag ourselves out to the park every day to maximise the park as best we can.

Right across from Disneyland Park was Disneyland California Adventure. The California Adventure has more rides targeted the older crowds visiting the park - action packed rides!

C is for Cheryl

A is for Alex

Entrance of California Adventure

A restaurant selling hot dogs - Award Wieners! In a supporting roll too! You get it? Hahaha.. :)

We went on the Monsters Inc ride

Characters from Monsters Inc

Sully, Boo and Mike!

Sully looking for Boo

We managed to catch the Pixar Play Parade. Lots of music, dance and colors. Its just like the Disney Main Street Parade except this was full of Pixar characters.

Streets fully lined with guests of all ages

Started off with a character from Cars - Lightning McQueen

Mike atop the Pixar Play Parade vehicle

Mr. Incredible

Mrs. Incredible

Incredible dance troupe

It was amazing what these guys did on top these jumping thingys

Turtle from Finding Nemo

Jellyfish dancer

Character from A Bugs Life

Dancing bugs

Bug float

Where were these guys from?

Mr. Potato Head!

Bo Peep

Truck from Cars

After California Adventure, we went back to Disneyland Park to enjoy the night. It was still very crowded and the 'dreamland' feeling was still very much in the air. Felt rather magical and surreal.

All lit up

This was Main Street and the building right down center is the Train Station

It was a good end to our trip. Tired as we were, we couldn't wait to get home but we definitely enjoyed every moment of this holiday. We hope you have enjoyed the pictures too.

cheryl

Anaheim: Disneyland!

Collected our rental car - Checked into Anaheim - Disneyland!

We got a car to drive out to Anaheim. It was Alex's first time driving on the left hand drive and the opposite side of the road. He was a little cautious at first but got the hang of it in a jiffy. We got ourselves the GPS to go with the car to make our journey heaps easier.

Enjoying the ride

Side shot of the vehicle

Front shot

The drive out to Anaheim took ~1 hour. Upon arrival we went through the check in procedure as quickly as we could, taking the compulsory shots of the room with the teddies in frame :) It was a nice big room. The hotel is located about 1 mile from Disneyland itself but there was no worry about transportation into the park. There is a shuttle from the hotel to the park and for USD 4 a day, you can travel back and forth as many times as you would like. If you are not keen on paying USD 4, you can walk to the Mickey Mouse car park (a full block away) and take the free shuttle into the park from there.

Holiday Inn - Anaheim

Disneyland was really fun. We had previously been to the one in Hong Kong and so did not expect as much from this park. I kinda had my heart set on Disney World in Florida and had assumed that this one in Anaheim would not be much different to the one in Hong Kong. However we were very pleasantly surprised! This park is much bigger and all the buildings plus the atmosphere sure takes you into a different world. It sure brought us back to our childhood moments- Saturday mornings spent in front of the tv watching films, product of Walt Disney and being able to associate that with the sight in front of us put a smile on our faces all day.

It was clear that no expense was spared on every building, in every ride, down to every minute detail on the streets. All this combined, really transported us into a world of dance and song, colors and animation.

The train station that stands at every entrance of Disneyland

The other side of the train station

Very other worldly - even the lamp posts are full on!

We spotted Mary Poppins very early on in the park

Tomorrowland

Adventureland

Mark Twain's Riverboat

The Haunted House - as in the movie

We stopped for seafood Gumbo in sourdough bread bowl for lunch

We bumped into Woody and Jessie from Toy Story

Even the toilet icons here are nice!

I had to take the shots in pairs ok? Men and of course, Women!

We went on the Pinocchio ride... The lady on the right flashed Alex :)

Geppeto sending Pinocchio to bed

Alex and I have an aversion to spinning teacups. We opted to sit in a grounded one instead

We got a photo with the Big Shot! The Numero Uno of the park! Yay!

Ooops..So much for Alex getting used to the left hand drive... Sorry Goofy!

Hehe... photo speaks for itself

After our day in the park, we were really hungry and craving for Japanese food. The beauty of having a car with a GPS in it, was that we could go anywhere for food instead of popping only into places we passed by chance or places we could get to on foot.

We really liked this small Japanese restaurant. It had a drive thru counter as well. It was a cosy rather homely restaurant with very friendly staff. I got the feeling that it was a family run place.